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08 Election Daily News Clips
October 13th, 2008
*Candidate Tracking:*
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
11:00am McCain and Palin: hold a joint rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia
2:15pm McCain: holds a rally in Wilmington, North Crolina
2:30pm Palin: holds a "Road to Victory" rally at the Richmond International
Speedway in Richmond, Virginia
*News** Clips:*
MCCAIN NEWS
* Pentagon divided over John McCain (LA Times 10/13/08)*
By Julian E. Barnes
WASHINGTON -- For decades, the nation's military officer corps has
identified steadfastly with the priorities and values of the Republican
Party. So the brass should be reveling in the presidential campaign of John
McCain.
Yet, in a culture that typically prefers one of its own, many are wary of
the Vietnam War hero.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-mccainmil13-2008oct13,0,4585331.story
*Writing Memoir, McCain Found a Narrative for Life (NYT 10/13/08) *
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON — For 25 years after his release from a North Vietnamese prison,
Senator John McCain tried to build a reputation as more than a famous former
captive. "I never want to be a professional P.O.W.," he often told friends.
He refused to let his campaigns use pictures from his incarceration, and he
never mentioned his torture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13mccain.html
*Seeing White House From a Cell in Hanoi (WaPo 10/13/08)*
By Michael Leahy
"He was talking about his father to us and then he said: 'I want to be
president of the United States. Someday I'm going to be president,' "
Stratton recalls. "If the cell wasn't so small, we'd have been rolling
around laughing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101202306.html?hpid=topnews
*In Virginia, McCain Struggles To Hold the South for GOP (WSJ 10/13/08)*
By COREY DADE
Fueled by demographic shifts, rising doubts about the direction of the
country, perceived missteps by Sen. McCain and a voter-registration push by
the Obama campaign that has helped add a net of 310,000 new, mostly younger
voters, the Democratic ticket increasingly appears positioned to win
Virginia and make critical inroads across the South. A CNN/Time Inc. poll
released Wednesday shows Sen. Obama has opened a nine-point lead on Sen.
McCain in Virginia.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385515550927117.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*GOP Head Compares Obama to Bin Laden: Va. Party Leader Criticized,
Including By McCain Team (WaPo 10/13/08)*
By Tim Craig
Virginia Democrats, and some Republicans, are outraged, saying these are the
latest in a series of inflammatory statements that the GOP has made against
Obama in Virginia, a state that has emerged as a crucial battleground in the
election.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201956.html
*Obama Camp's Travel Seems a Factor In Recent Leads in Battleground States
(WSJ 10/13/08)*
By LAURA MECKLER and EASHA ANAND
The Democrats Have Appeared at 95 Events, While It's Just 55 for the
Republicans…The gap makes a difference in the amount of press that each
ticket gets in critical markets -- and is mirrored by a similar disparity in
TV advertising. Sen. Obama outspent Sen. McCain and the Republican National
Committee on ads in 15 states for the week ended Oct. 4, according to the
Wisconsin Advertising Project, an initiative at the University of Wisconsin.
The Republicans spent more in just two states.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122383794476626615.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*McCain: "The Economy Has Hurt Us A Little Bit" (Huff Po 10/12/08)*
By BETH FOUHY
"We're a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we're right in this game,"
McCain said to cheers. "The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last
week or two, but in the last few days we've seen it come back up because
they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We'll give
that to America."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/12/mccain-the-economy-has-hu_n_134051.html
*Concern in G.O.P. After Rough Week for McCain (NYT 10/12/08)*
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Again and again, party leaders said in interviews that while they still
believed that Mr. McCain could win over voters in the next 30 days, they
were concerned that he and his advisers seemed to be adrift in dealing with
an extraordinarily challenging political battleground and a crisis on Wall
Street.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12strategy.html
*Congressman Rebukes McCain for Recent Rallies (NYT 10/12/08)*
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
WASHINGTON — Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and civil
rights leader, said Saturday that Senator John McCain and his running mate,
Gov. Sarah Palin, were "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" in a way
that reminded him of former Gov. George Wallace and "another destructive
period" in the nation's history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12lewis.html
*McCain's gentler campaign: Obama's a pro-abortion radical (McClatchy
10/11/08)*
By William Douglas
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A day after John McCain tried to soften the rhetoric of his
angry supporters toward Barack Obama, running-mate Sarah Palin described
Obama as a pro-abortion radical, saying it's not negative or mean-spirited
to talk about his record.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53806.html
*McCain Campaign Sustains the Focus on Obama's Links to a 1960s Radical *
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Despite the McCain campaign's zeal for invoking Mr. Ayers, however, Mr.
McCain himself did not bring him up at his debate with Mr. Obama on Tuesday…
Whatever the reason Mr. McCain did not bring up Mr. Ayers, that he continues
to focus on him on the trail suggests that he thinks the name is energizing
his base, those voters who are already committed to him, and perhaps those
who are looking for a reason not to support Mr. Obama. And he wants to
ensure they remain energized through Election Day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12ayers.html
*MCCAIN: 'AFTER I WHIP HIS YOU KNOW WHAT' (MSNBC blog 10/12/08)*
By Adam Aigner-Treworgy
ARLINGTON, Va. -- After doing some debate prep and satellite interviews at
his campaign headquarters for most of the afternoon, McCain headed
downstairs to his Virginia Victory offices to rally a group of volunteers
who had been making phone calls on his behalf.
He referenced recent poll numbers and the state of the race in Virginia
before telling his supporters that this news should only make them want to
work harder.
"After I whip his you know what in this debate, we're going to be going out
24/7," McCain said of his upcoming debate with Obama, but seeming to
consider recent criticism that his words have been too inflammatory, he
quickly told supporters to be respectful.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/12/1537045.aspx
*No New Economic Proposal Expected From McCain (NYT 10/13/08)*
By JACKIE CALMES
WASHINGTON — Despite signals that Senator John McCain would have new
prescriptions for the economic crisis after a weekend of meetings, his
campaign said Sunday that Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee,
would not have any more proposals this week unless developments call for
some.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13plan.html
*John McCain considering new economic proposals (LA Times 10/13/08)*
By Maeve Reston and William Heise
ARLINGTON, VA. -- As he struggles to convince voters he is the best
candidate to handle the economy, John McCain is considering whether to issue
a new set of economic proposals, possibly including lower taxes on dividends
and capital gains.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign13-2008oct13,0,5228014.story
*McCain weighs proposal to cut taxes on investments (AP 10/12/08)*
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top adviser to Republican John McCain said Sunday the
presidential hopeful is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation
weather the financial crisis.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said McCain was considering policy proposals
that would cut taxes on investments.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6OTvvWxmdp5Q2IvjYry89Ikh1YwD93P5D7G0
*McCain Aides' Foreign Work Raises Eyebrows (National Journal 10/11/08)*
by Peter H. Stone
Ferry's involvement in Ukraine is significant because Davis has tried to
distance himself from his shop's work there since he joined the campaign. A
McCain spokesman told ABC News early this year that Davis wasn't involved in
the Ukraine elections. Manafort reportedly led the firm's work there, but a
source familiar with the effort says that Ferry "was going back and forth."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/ll_20081011_9746.php?related=true&story1=co_20080824_1525&story2=cdp_20080522_7275&story3=cdp_20080418_6542
*Blunt skeptical of McCain mortgage plan (Politico blog 10/12/08)*
By Glenn Thrush
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) -- who cited John McCain as a critical
player in the passage of the bailout package, is raising some questions
about McCain's proposal to buy $300 billion of bad mortgages.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1008/Blunt_skeptical_of_McCain_mortgage_plan_.html
*How much can Crist do to help McCain? (Gainesville Sun 10/11/08)*
By JOE FOLLICK
Senate Democratic leader Steve Geller, D-Hallandale Beach, is a longtime
friend of Crist's. Geller said McCain would win Florida had McCain tapped
Crist as running mate.
"I do believe that Charlie would have been probably enough to take Florida
off the table," he said. "I believe that Obama will carry Florida by three
or four points, and I believe that Charlie could have picked up five to 10."
But without Crist on the ticket, Geller said the governor can do "nothing"
to help McCain.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081011/NEWS/810110200/1002/NEWS01?Title=How_much_can_Crist_do_to_help_McCain_
*A Candidate Who Embraces Opposites (NYT 10/12/08)*
By MICHAEL COOPER
At the presidential debate in Nashville last Tuesday, Senator John McCain
made his case for fiscally conservative, smaller government, calling for an
"across the board" spending freeze and denouncing what he described as
Senator Barack Obama's "government will do this and government will do that"
approach to health care.
But Mr. McCain's big proposal that night was to spend $300 billion in
taxpayer money to buy bad mortgages from banks and refinance them, a plan
conservatives quickly condemned as an expensive effort to nationalize the
mortgage industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12mccain.html?ref=us
*Obama Camp Relying Heavily on Ground Effort (WaPo 10/12/08)*
By Alec MacGillis
In many states, the Democratic candidate is hewing more closely to the Rove
organizational model than is rival Sen. John McCain, whose emphasis on
ground operations has been less intensive and clinical than that of his
Republican predecessor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102119_pf.html
*McCain shies away from recent days' attacks (AP 10/11/08)*
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Republican John McCain, the clock ticking down on a
chance to narrow Democrat Barack Obama's lead in polls, turned away Saturday
from visceral attacks on his rival to pivot back toward policy differences.
McCain kept his speech in this Iowa river town focused on the economy and
other policies, a striking change from just days ago when his campaign
redoubled its challenge to Obama over his association with a former '60s
radical. McCain also claimed that American voters didn't really know Obama
and his own "radical" views.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/10/11/mccain_shies_away_from_recent_days_attacks/
PALIN NEWS
* **Come one come all: Alaska media darling Palin cultivated national press
in pre-McCain days (AP 10/13/08)*
By RITA BEAMISH
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is keeping reporters at arms'
length in her campaign, but she had a very different approach as Alaska's
new governor: She couldn't get enough of them.
Palin cultivated interviews with local and national journalists and welcomed
them from as far away as London, earning time in the spotlight even before
Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected her as his running
mate.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_REPORTERS?SITE=WSAW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*Palin talks economic worries in Appalachian Ohio (AP 10/12/08)*
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The character attacks, it appears, are now out of Palin's stump speech as
the economy has become the issue on which this election will be decided.
"All across America, I know that there's a lot of anger right now," Palin
said. "There's anger about the insider dealing of lobbyists. And anger at
the greed of Wall Street. And anger about the arrogance of the Washington
elite."
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-12-20-21-09
*Palin Talks to Alaska Reporters about Troopergate (WaPo blog 10/12/08)*
By James V. Grimaldi
In a Saturday conference call with Alaska journalists, Palin said she was
"pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of
unethical activity there." She denounced the investigation, calling it "a
partisan circus." The McCain-Palin campaign said that she and her family had
good reason to try to get the trooper fired.
A transcript of the brief conference call was posted on the Web site of TV
station KTUU.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/12/palin_talks_to_alaska_reporter.html?hpid=topnews
*Judge orders Palin administration to preserve e-mails (Anchorage Daily News
10/11/08)*
By LISA DEMER
An Anchorage judge on Friday ordered Gov. Sarah Palin and others in her
office to retrieve and preserve any e-mails from private accounts that
concern state business.
The ruling came in a lawsuit against Palin -- the GOP vice presidential
nominee -- filed by Andree McLeod, an Anchorage activist and former state
worker.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/552784.html
*Palin has mixed record as fiscal conservative (AP 10/12/08)*
By MATT VOLZ
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice
president, bills herself as a fiscal conservative. But her record looks
little like the classic conservative who favors less government and lower
taxes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/palin_economics
*Palin on energy (Anchorage Daily News 10/12/08)*
Editorial Staff
But progress isn't a pipeline. Palin is padding her resume when she says
we're "building" a pipeline. There's no pipe, no final permits, no
financing, no shipping agreements. There is investment and prep work in the
tens of millions, with the potential for more than $1 billion, including
$500 million for TransCanada. The wisdom of Palin's strategy has yet to be
proven in pipe… Palin won't be invited to a conference of international oil
consultants. She wouldn't belong there.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/sarah-palin/story/553653.html
*Palin uses her elected office to promote religious causes, at times with
public money (AP 10/11/08)*
By GARANCE BURKE
Palin and her family billed the state $3,022 for the cost of attending
Christian gatherings exclusively, including visits to the Assembly of God
here and to the congregation they attend in Juneau, according to expense
reports reviewed by the AP.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Oct11/0,4670,PalinChurchandState,00.html
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
*For president, a generational conflict (LA Times 10/13/08)*
By Russell Baker
The two men competing for the unenviable job of trying to reverse this
decline present a classic conflict of generations. Barack Obama is 47 years
old; John McCain is 72, old enough to be Obama's father. This unusual age
spread between presidential candidates brings to mind a wide variety of
familiar literary plots about father-and-son conflicts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-baker13-2008oct13,0,5153323.story
*The NRA two-step: Once, it attacked McCain. Now, it's backing him. (LA
Times 10/13/08)*
Editroial
The NRA on Thursday officially endorsed John McCain, though that was merely
a formality given that it had already spent $2.3 million on attack ads
targeting Obama. This puts the organization in the odd position of throwing
its considerable political clout behind a Republican candidate whom its
official journal once called "one of the premier flag carriers for enemies
of the 2nd Amendment," and against a Democrat who never tires of telling
voters that he believes in the right to bear arms. So what gives?
Apparently, the NRA thinks that McCain's past legislative sins against gun
ownership are forgivable, while Obama's are not.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-guns13-2008oct13,0,1084160.story
*Obama Is Right About Talking to Iran: U.S. diplomacy can turn Tehran
against Russia. (WSJ 10/13/08)*
By VALI NASR
Talking to Iran is good Russia policy. Barack Obama has been right all
along. American foreign policy will successfully deal with the world's
complex tangle of challenges when it takes diplomacy seriously. And nowhere
will the far-reaching impact of diplomacy be more evident than in sorting
out the twin challenges of Russia and Iran.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385751317227389.html
*What McCain Hasn't Tried (WaPo 10/13/08)*
By Fred Hiatt
I certainly can't prove that a McCain campaign built on respect and
attention to issues would be faring better than the real thing. Without
Sarah Palin to rally the base, and without the insidious questioning of
Obama's patriotism, McCain might be even further behind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201632.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
*The GOP and the perils of populism (LA Times 10/13/08)*
By Gregory Rodriguez
Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy, on the other hand, could haunt
the party for some time. Beyond the excitement and attention she garnered in
her first two weeks on the stump, Palin hasn't done much to help McCain
argue, as he did in last Tuesday's debate, that he's "the steady hand at the
tiller."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez13-2008oct13,0,936020.column
*Fire the Campaign (NYT 10/13/08)*
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama's. The
Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and
the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is
now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic
incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race
continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is
doomed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13kristol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*History and the Really Very Weird (NYT 10/13/08)*
By ROGER COHEN
Back when he was vice president, Dan Quayle noted that: "People that are
really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous
impact on history."…Quayle's words came back to me because, like a lot
Americans, I've come down with Palinitis: the acute fear that Sarah Palin
might get into one of those "sensitive positions."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13cohen.html
*The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama (NYT 10/12/08)*
By Frank Rich
Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers's behavior 40 years ago, but
at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the
behavior of their own supporters in 2008. What's troubling here is not only
the candidates' loose inflammatory talk but also their refusal to step in
promptly and strongly when someone responds to it with bloodthirsty threats
in a crowded arena. Joe Biden had it exactly right when he expressed concern
last week that "a leading American politician who might be vice president of
the United States would not just stop midsentence and turn and condemn
that." To stay silent is to pour gas on the fires.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html
*What Honeymoon? The Proposals That Could Bind Obama (WaPo 10/12/08)*
By David S. Broder
The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world
may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House
ambitions.
The bad news is that Obama stands to inherit the leadership of a country in
far worse condition than he could have imagined when he began this campaign
almost two years ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002612.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
*Dear Old Golden Dog Days (NYT 10/12/08)*
By Gail Collins
Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy
yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It's only in retrospect that we can see
that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign's golden era.
Now, he's beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the
wrong ring and turns into a troll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/opinion/11collins.html
*Will McCain Do Anything to Win? (WaPo 10/11/08)*
By Harold Ford Jr.
In fact, after McCain lost the Republican nomination to George Bush in 2000,
he declared that there was a "special place in hell" for the Bush operatives
who had run a smear campaign against him. By adopting the same approach
against Obama, McCain diminishes his reputation and raises questions about
his commitment to fairness and decency.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002558.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
*Up and Down the Learning Curve (NYT 10/12/08)*
Editorial
Mr. Obama also keeps moving up the learning curve on energy issues, whereas
Mr. McCain seems to regress. This is important because energy problems are
varied and complex, and solving them will require leaders with restless
curiosity and an open mind.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12sun1.html
*Alaska's Family Feud: Meddlesome Sarah Palin does not come off well. (NYT
10/13/08)*
Editorial
Likewise, Ms. Palin's decision to repudiate her earlier pledge to cooperate
fully with the inquiry does not offer assurance about how she would conduct
herself as vice president. The McCain-Palin campaign's response to the
inquiry has been internally contradictory -- simultaneously assailing the
investigation as a partisan witch hunt and mischaracterizing as vindication
the report's finding that Ms. Palin was within her rights as governor to
remove the commissioner who had refused to act against her former
brother-in-law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201626.html?nav=rss_opinions
*Democracy, at 70 Degrees Below Zero (NYT 10/12/08)*
By VICTOR S. NAVASKY
I believe I speak with authority when I say that at least in those years,
Gov. Sarah Palin's much-mocked claim that Alaska's proximity to Russia gives
one a leg up on matters of national security was, in effect, official United
States policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12navasky.html
*Are We Rome? Tu Betchus! (NYT 10/12/08)*
By MAUREEN DOWD
Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — "O, most bloody sight!" — cum
Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini,
et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare amant Baracum Obamam causa
oratorii, pillorant ut demagogi veri, Africanum-Americanum senatorem Terrae
Lincolni, ad Republicanas rallias.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html
BUSH NEWS
*White House Overhauling Rescue Plan (NYT 10/12/08)*
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and MARK LANDLER
Two weeks after persuading Congress to let it spend $700 billion to buy
distressed securities tied to mortgages, the Bush administration has put
that idea aside in favor of a new approach that would have the government
inject capital directly into the nation's banks — in effect, partially
nationalizing the industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12imf.html
OTHER NEWS
*For stocks, high anxiety rules (Reuters 10/12/08)*
By Vivianne Rodrigues and Leah Schnurr
U.S. stock futures on Sunday evening suggested a higher opening on Wall
Street following the announcement of the measures in Europe. S&P 500 futures
rose 29.8 points. Dow Jones industrial average futures were up 252 points,
and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 31.25 points.
http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE49A06V20081013
*North Korea Is Off Terror List After Deal With U.S. (NYT 10/12/08)*
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Saturday that it had removed
North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism in a bid to salvage a
fragile nuclear deal that seemed on the verge of collapse.
Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, said that the United States
made the decision after North Korea agreed to resume disabling a plutonium
plant and to allow some inspections to verify that it had halted its nuclear
program as promised months earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/world/asia/12terror.html
*Insulated from global woes, Iraqi stocks soar (AP 10/12/08)*
By KIM GAMEL
BAGHDAD (AP) -- While the rest of the world is facing a financial meltdown,
the Iraq Stock Exchange is booming.
The ISX index soared nearly 40 percent during September, boosted by
increasing confidence in security gains.
The ISX is only open two hours a day, three days a week and brokers track
trading activity on the floor with colored markers and white bulletin boards
instead of computers. But investors are seeing gains, especially in the
hotel sector, even as markets elsewhere are taking a tumble.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Oct12/0,4670,MLIraqMarketBoom,00.html
*Rich Nations Pushing for Joint Financial Rescue (NYT 10/11/08)*
By MARK LANDLER
In the five-point plan, issued after finance ministers met at the Treasury
Department, the Group of 7 countries broadly endorsed the idea of taking
ownership positions in banks — a strategy first adopted by Britain and now
emerging as a major part of the rescue effort in the United States.
But the nations were vague on how or when that will happen, and did not
endorse a proposal by Britain to provide coordinated guarantees of lending
between banks, as a way to shake loose credit markets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/11global.html
*Using Disclosure Rules as a Defense for a Senator (NYT 10/13/08)*
By NEIL A. LEWIS
The principal tactic used by Mr. Sullivan has been to present a surplus of
outrage after finding examples where prosecutors failed to live up to their
obligations, first laid out in a 1963 Supreme Court opinion, to disclose to
defense lawyers any information that could help disprove the charges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/washington/13stevens.html
*Prosecutors subpoena Mrs. Stevens' e-mails (Anchorage Daily News 10/13/08)*
By ERIKA BOLSTAD and RICHARD MAUER
WASHINGTON -- Even as Sen. Ted Stevens' trial approaches a likely end this
week, federal prosecutors are still attempting to gather more evidence,
including correspondence between the Alaska senator and his wife, Catherine,
as well as e-mails she may have sent to 34 others about their home
renovation and gifts the senator may have received.
http://www.adn.com/ted-stevens/story/554353.html
*Trial's almost over, but prosecutors still want Stevens e-mails (McClatchy
10/12/08)*
By Erika Bolstad
WASHINGTON — Even as Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial nears an end,
federal prosecutors are still asking for correspondence between the Alaska
senator and his wife, Catherine, as well as e-mails she may have sent to 37
people connected to the couple's home renovation and other gifts the senator
may have received.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53825.html
*Powell testifies to Stevens' high reputation (Anchorage Daily News
10/11/08)*
By ERIKA BOLSTAD and RICHARD MAUER
Speaking in a courtroom suddenly packed with spectators and to jurors
leaning forward in their seats, Powell recounted his long career, ending
with his "dabbling in diplomacy," as he self-deprecatingly described his
four years as secretary of state.
He then turned to Stevens, whom he has known for 25 years. Powell described
Stevens as a "trusted individual" and a man with a "sterling" reputation.
"He was someone whose word you could rely on," said Powell.
http://www.adn.com/ted-stevens/story/552794.html
POLLS
***Obama Up by 10 Points as McCain Favorability Ratings Fall (WaPo 10/13/08)
*
By Anne E. Kornblut and Jon Cohen
Overall, Obama is leading 53 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, and
for the first time in the general-election campaign, voters gave the
Democrat a clear edge on tax policy and providing strong leadership.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101202333.html?hpid=topnews
*History Suggests McCain Faces an Uphill Battle (NYT 10/13/08)*
By JOHN HARWOOD
In the latest Gallup tracking poll, Mr. Obama leads Mr. McCain 50 percent to
43 percent among registered voters. Mr. McCain's deficit in that survey has
remained seven percentage points or more for most of the last two weeks.
Since Gallup began presidential polling in 1936, only one candidate has
overcome a deficit that large, and this late, to win the White House: Ronald
Reagan, who trailed President Jimmy Carter 47 percent to 39 percent in a
survey completed on Oct. 26, 1980.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13caucus.html
*Crossing Over: As the U.S. Economy Sputters, Working-Class Women Shift to
Obama (WSJ 10/11/08)*
By JONATHAN KAUFMAN
Working-class women, generally defined as those in blue-collar and service
jobs earning less than $50,000 a year -- comprise almost a quarter of
American voters. Sen. Obama trailed Sen. John McCain by 12 points among
these women just two weeks ago, but has since closed the gap. According to a
Wall Street Journal poll conducted the weekend of Oct. 4, the two senators
are now running even, with 45% of such voters giving each candidate the nod.
The reversal is one of the main reasons Sen. Obama is gaining ground in
swing states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana
-- all of which have large rural and blue-collar populations.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122370058766625819.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*In bad omen for GOP hopes, independents split evenly between Obama and
McCain (AP 10/13/08)*
By ALAN FRAM
Eighty-two percent of independents said they worry the economic crisis will
inflict a long-term toll on them, compared with 89 percent of Democrats and
65 percent of Republicans, according to the AP-GfK poll.
Like Democrats and unlike Republicans, most independents said they'd prefer
a candidate they trust to handle the economy to one they trust on national
security. They said Obama would better deal with the financial crisis and
better understands its impact on them.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAMPAIGN_INDEPENDENTS?SITE=WSAW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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